The domestic search engine Yandex for many years remains the leader in the search for electronic information. Continuous development, "fouling" of new services, improvement of previous functions confidently make Yandex the leader in search engines in the Russian segment of the Internet. For comfortable and proper use of the search engine, you must first configure the Yandex settings for a specific user. In this case, the final search results will most closely match the data that you requested from the search engine.
Main page
By typing in the address bar www.yandex.ru, you get to the main page of the search engine. Here you can find not only the search form itself, but also various information widgets that provide current news, current weather, exchange rates and much more. Not every user needs such an abundance of information: it annoys many, but some, on the contrary, lack something.
The main settings of Yandex
You can configure widgets and widgets by clicking on the gear icon in the upper right corner of the main page. In the drop-down menu you need to select the first item “Configure Yandex.” All current widgets will be visually transformed - each will have its own mini-gear for more fine-tuning and a “cross” for deletion. You can move the blocks, choose a different location on the page and even delete everything.
Settings in Yandex allow you to add only those widgets whose information you constantly need. To do this, click on the "Add widget" button in the upper left corner of the screen. For your convenience, a huge collection of diverse widgets is sorted by category. You can also add another widget to the Yandex home page from the corresponding drop-down menu item.
In addition, from the settings menu you can change the design of the page. To do this, select the menu item "Put the theme" and click "Save." If the design theme is bored or you want to return to the usual look of the search engine, then where the Yandex settings are, select the "Reset theme" option.
For the category of users who are not indifferent to the beauty of the design and hindered by news and other information, there is a "Spartan" version of the search engine at www.ya.ru. For this stripped-down version, the Yandex settings discussed above are not relevant.
If you set the page with this address as your home, then every time you launch the browser, you will see only a search form on the background of a virgin-clean page.
Search for information with Yandex
Yandex settings include the menu item "Change city", which allows you to specify your location for more accurate final search results. In the "Default" option, the Yandex service automatically exposes a city or region based on your IP address. If you want to search for information in a particular city, then you just need to enter the name of this city in the appropriate window. When you select "Do not specify my location", a pop-up message will cease to appear with the clarification of your location.
Advanced settings are in the menu item settings "Other settings". Selecting this item will open a window with numerous additional functions, including Yandex search settings. They can be adjusted in which form the final search results will be shown:
- standard or expanded presentation of documents found;
- how many documents to show on the results page;
- in what language to show the documents found;
- filtering pages with dubious content;
- correction or query prompt options with errors.
To search for information in the Internet segment of another country other than Russia, it is more convenient not to change the Yandex search settings , but directly switch to the domain name of that state. For example, for Belarus it will be www.yandex.by, for Ukraine www.yandex.ua, for Kazakhstan www.yandex.kz.
Mail on Yandex
The second most important Internet service of Yandex is mail. The correct setup of mail on Yandex will allow you to use its functions in full. Yandex.Mail will automatically delete messages from the Spam category or correspondence from the recipient that you have previously blacklisted. It will also collect letters from numerous of your other mailboxes into one located on Yandex servers.
Mail setup
In your Yandex mailbox in the upper right corner, click on the gear icon and select "Settings." In the window that appears, go to the most important section of the mail service - "Security". In it you can see from which IP addresses your mailbox was visited, change the password, add an additional mailbox and a mobile phone number in case of a recovery procedure if the password is lost.
The item "Personal data, signature, portrait" indicates the data that the recipient of letters will see at the end of your letter: name, phone, photo. The "Incoming mail processing rules" mode allows you to create a list of mail addresses from which you will not receive letters - the so-called black list. And, on the contrary, the letters indicated in the "white list", accidentally appearing in the "Spam" folder, will subsequently be moved to the "Inbox". You can also create rules by which newly arriving letters will be redirected to the folder you specify.
The "Collect mail from other mailboxes" section allows you to pick up your letters from any mail servers. You will only need to enter the full name of the mailbox and the password for it in the appropriate fields.
In the "Folders and Tags" section, you can create and delete new folders in which your letters will be arranged, and define tags for a group of letters.
In the "Contacts" section there is a function of automatically storing mail addresses from the correspondence received by you. You can also import existing contacts of your interlocutors or colleagues.
The very up-to-date service "Cases" will allow you to record plans directly in your inbox, and in addition to track them in your smartphone (iOS and Symbian).
By clicking on the "Other options" option, you can fine-tune your mailbox: set the mode for editing and displaying letters, mail language, time zone, and some other parameters.
Section "Design Selection" allows you to change the design theme of the mailbox. By setting up the "Subscriptions" section, you can read RSS feeds of sites and blogs in your inbox.
In the "Mail Programs" section, the POP3 and IMAP protocol parameters are specified for working with mail clients.
Yandex.Mail is constantly evolving and improving. Most recently, programmers taught her how to determine addresses in letters and show them to the user on Yandex.Maps.
Yandex add-ons for browsers
Currently, on all popular browsers, the Yandex Elements add-on can be installed. In any browser, by visiting the website www.element.yandex.ru, you can install a comprehensive add-on that includes the following widgets:
- "Visual bookmarks" in which the user indicates selected sites;
- "Weather", showing the forecast for the coming days and current readings on the street;
- "Traffic", showing the congestion of the highway;
- "Mail" informing about new letters;
- "Transfers";
- "Social networks", informing about new posts;
- "Security" that protects against the effects of malicious sites.
Settings for Yandex of this add-on, combining many services, are not required. You can only disable some widgets in the browser settings, the information of which you do not need.
"Yandex browser"
Having appeared relatively recently, Yandex.Browser is initially integrated with the main Yandex services. Made on the basis of Chromium, it combines the best features of this browser engine and the basic Internet services of the Yandex system. Settings in the Yandex browser are not required. The only exception is entering the name and password of the mailbox.
Yandex.Direct: setting. Details
This Internet service allows you to monetize the number of visitors to your site by placing contextual advertising and banners.
To use the Yandex.Direct functions, you need to register and send an application to participate in the unified Yandex advertising network. After moderating your site and signing the contract, you must select an advertising product and place a code for the visual display of information. Depending on the number of clicks from your site, you will receive revenue. The Yandex.Direct setting consists in the fact that using Yandex statistics and tools, it is necessary to increase the effectiveness of advertising on the site and adjust the content of advertising banners depending on user visits. And this in turn will increase your income.
Interesting Facts
The American organization IANA, responsible for the allocation of address spaces on the Internet, approved the creation of a top-level domain ".yandex". In 2014, a book was published entitled Yandex.Book, authored by Dmitry Sokolov-Mitrich. She talks about the creation of the Yandex project and its development. During the creation of the book, the author talked a lot with all Yandex employees to clarify the facts.